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Thanks for the reply. I'll give this a try as soon as get a min
Sorry for the stupid questions. I'm fairly new to VMware and making some great mistakes We've got a stand alone ESXi host (Dell Poweredge R630) that came with Dell custom ESXi 6.0 update 3 ... See more...
Sorry for the stupid questions. I'm fairly new to VMware and making some great mistakes We've got a stand alone ESXi host (Dell Poweredge R630) that came with Dell custom ESXi 6.0 update 3 I upgraded to ESXi 6.7 update 2 using an ISO downloaded from the VMWare website, without realising that I should have really used the custom dell image from the Dell Website (D'oh) Now the version of VMWare on the host is showing as 6.7 update 2 but there's also a banner message that appears showing that this is Dell Custom image for 6.0 update 3 I've put the service tag of the machine into the Dell website and downloaded the custom image for 6.7 update 2 Is it safe for me to run the upgrade from VMWare image for 6.7 update 2 to the Dell custom image for 6.7 update 2 ? Thanks
Thanks for your quick response
Thanks for replying so quickly Just to confirm  -  The 3 patches should already be installed as part of 6.7 update 2 then ? I just need to surpress the error message ?
Hello. Hope you can help. New to VmWare and need advice re: patching I've just updated a stand alone ESXi server from 6.0 to 6.7 Update 2 (Build 13006603) by booting from a CD. Worked fine but... See more...
Hello. Hope you can help. New to VmWare and need advice re: patching I've just updated a stand alone ESXi server from 6.0 to 6.7 Update 2 (Build 13006603) by booting from a CD. Worked fine but I'm now getting the warning message "This host is potentially vulnerable to issues described in CVE-2018-3646" Checked the Vmware article https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0020.html This is my understanding of what I should do Concurrent-context attack vector - Disable Hyperthreading after applying patches (Don't think we're going to disable hyperthreading). To supress the warning message change UserVars.SuppressHyperthreadWarning from 0 to 1 according to https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57374 As the patches for this fix were released in Aug 2018 and 6.7 Update 2 was released in Apr 2019 do I actually need to install the 3 patches or would they have been included in 6.7 update 2 ? Is it just a case of supressing the HyperThread warning message ? Thanks